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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 24
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Jerusalem besieged and taken by Nebuchadnezzar—Many of Judah carried captive into Babylon—Zedekiah becomes king in Jerusalem—He rebels against Babylon.
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In</span> his days <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 36: 6 (6-10); Dan. 1: 1 (1-2).">Nebuchadnezzar</a> king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> sent <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 19: 8.">against</a> him bands of the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 1: 17.">Chaldees</a>, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 25: 9 (9-11).">destroy</a> it, according to the <sup>d</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/2d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 14 (12-16); 2 Kgs. 23: 27; 1 Ne. 1: 13.">word</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
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Surely at the commandment of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came <i>this</i> upon Judah, to remove <i>them</i> out of his sight, for the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 11.">sins</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 15: 4.">Manasseh</a>, according to all that he did;
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And also for the innocent blood that he <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 16.">shed</a>: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> would not pardon.
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&#182; Now the rest of the acts of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 36: 8.">Jehoiakim</a>, and all that he did, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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So <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Chr. 3: 16; Jer. 22: 24.">Jehoiakim</a> slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
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And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
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&#182; Jehoiachin <i>was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 36: 9.">eighteen</a> years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.  And his mother’s name <i>was</i> Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
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And he did <i>that which was</i> evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, according to all that his father had done.
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&#182; At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 7: 13 (13-15).">besieged</a>.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 17: 12.">Nebuchadnezzar</a> king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 1: 2 (1-2).">Jehoiachin</a> the king of Judah went out to the king of <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 20: 5.">Babylon</a>, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
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And he <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 20: 17 (17-18).">carried</a> out thence all the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Dan. 1: 2.">treasures</a> of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Chr. 36: 7; Jer. 27: 16.">vessels</a> of gold which <sup>d</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/13d" mark="d" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 7: 48 (48-50).">Solomon</a> king of Israel had made in the temple of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had said.
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And he <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 11 (1-12); Esth. 2: 6; Jer. 13: 19 (19, 24); 1 Ne. 1: 13; 2 Ne. 6: 8; 2 Ne. 25: 10; Omni 1: 15.">carried</a> away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, <i>even</i> ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Sam. 13: 19.">smiths</a>: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
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And he carried away <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 29: 2.">Jehoiachin</a> to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 17: 13.">mighty</a> of the land, <i>those</i> carried he into <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/15c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Bondage of, in Other Lands.">captivity</a> from Jerusalem to <sup>d</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/15d" mark="d" type="A" title="Jer. 24: 1; Ezek. 19: 13.">Babylon</a>.
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And all the men of might, <i>even</i> seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all <i>that were</i> strong <i>and</i> apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
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&#182; And the king of Babylon made <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 36: 10; Jer. 37: 1.">Mattaniah</a> his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Chr. 3: 15.">Zedekiah</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 52: 1; 1 Ne. 1: 4; Omni 1: 15; Hel. 8: 21.">Zedekiah</a> <i>was</i> twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.  And his mother’s name <i>was</i> Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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And he did <i>that which was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 13: 27; 1 Ne. 1: 13.">evil</a> in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
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For through the anger of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 36: 13; Jer. 52: 3; Ezek. 17: 15.">Zedekiah</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/24/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 27: 11; Jer. 32: 2 (1-5).">rebelled</a> against the king of Babylon.
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